Hungarian and Russian: strangers or relatives? (Part 3)

As already noted, 20% of the Hungarian words are of Slavic origin (Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, etc.). The previous post gave some examples classified into several “language-based categories”. In addition, a “life-based” approach can be used to highlight similarities between the two languages. Let’s have a look at just some of these Slavic borrowings. Again, I will take a Hungarian word first, compare it with Russian, and provide English equivalent at the end.